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.Ninja had a good 1st day yesterday as it entered general availability.The Rightside New gTLD reached 5,199 registrations after a just a few hours. That includes sunrise and landrush registrations. .Guru had 12,435 registrations after …

The SEX.xxx domain, one of the top-rated adult domains on the Internet, has been acquired by Barron Innovations as part of a groundbreaking $5 million, multi-year deal with ICM Registry (“ICM”). The $5 million deal …

Architelos signed a NameSentry (automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services) referral agreement with Verisign. Architelos will provide NameSentry at a discounted rate to new generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry operators that use Verisign as …

Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain – opened yesterday the general availability of three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organisation” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one …

On Monday June 2nd, 2014, as part of the all-new Moniker experience, Moniker will begin to offer access to over 1,000 domain extensions including new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Moniker has not yet signed …

I got a press release today saying that .xyz enters “Domainer-Friendly Landrush: thousands of names like gamble.xyz, whiskey.xyz and bids.xyz up for grabs”. Here is the Press Release: May 28, 2014 Following a Sunrise that saw …

Google published it’s first online course for AdSense publishers called “Optimizing AdSense”. You can start the course today to access all of the new videos, activities and assessments. The course forum is now open so …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 5-12-14 to 5-18-14 were $2.280.511 (last week $1.814.616). A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller …

In the past week (May 12 to May 18), 491 (473 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1,4m last week). Only 200 (195 last week) domains from …

.Club launched the new 50 Cent website at 50inda.club but here is what the .club registry did and what they missed in domain names: They need to redirect all these domains to 50inda.club: inda.club (reserved …

As you probably know by now, shortly after the .club LAUNCH on May 7th, a partnership was announced with award-winning rapper, actor and entrepreneur, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. On May 22nd 50 Cent launched his …

Today is EAP day 5 for 5 New gTLDs from Donuts that are travel related: .vacations, .flights, .villas, .rentals and .cruises. Did you get any yet or will you get any in general availability? Donuts …

This is an article that ICANN’s CEO Fadi Chehadé wrote regarding the NTIA transition from the US government. He said that there are 4 steps before the transition: 1. Transition of U.S. government stewardship of …

This is the “buyer’s” response to a quote I send him for one of my domains: Thank you for your email. Yes we’re interested in the domain name. However, we’re a small IT company with …